One of the hottest segments of the handgun market over the past several years has been that of the 2011-style handgun, which retains 1911 controls and feature sets while adding a double-stack magazine with greater capacity. At the same time, John Browning’s venerable 1911 design continues to be popular with the American shooting public, even 115 years removed from its development. Consequently, there is a host of new 1911s and 2011s available to today’s handgun enthusiasts, with each design bringing a unique feature set to the table. EAA | CMXX Witness2311 Double StackThe next-generation CMXX pistol builds on the 1911…

00:00:01 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wired to Hunt Foundations podcast, your guide to the fundamentals of better deer hunting, presented by first Light, creating proven versatile hunting apparel for the stand, saddle or blind. First Light Go Farther, Stay Longer, and now your host, Tony Peterson. 00:00:20 Speaker 2: Hey, everyone, welcome to the Wire to Hunt Foundations podcast. I’m your host, Tony Peterson. I want to deviate from deer this week to talk about turkeys once more before we get out of this season, but specifically late season turkeys. What I want to talk about and how most…

You’ve probably heard the term “safe queen,” but for those who aren’t quite sure what it means, simply put, it refers to a firearm so pristine, valuable, historically significant or emotionally important to its owner, it seems unthinkable to shoot it. Thus, these cherished gems end up being permanently sequestered away in gun safes or comparably secure environments, never to see the light of day, or at best, to be reverently taken out on occasion and briefly admired before being carefully put back into the fortified safety of their sheltered environment. I think I can safely say that, in most…

00:00:01 Speaker 1: Found almost exclusively in America in the western half of the continent. The West rock art remains an enigmatic record of thousands of years of the human presence. 00:00:12 Speaker 2: Here. 00:00:13 Speaker 1: I’m Dan Flores and this is the American West. Messages from the past, the rock art of the American West. For Europeans and Americans journeying into the West in the nineteenth century, the region passed the center line of the continent was plains and mountains, deserts and seacoasts, people and animals, And for them the whole stood as the purest, most distilled…

Author’s Introductory Note: Please help to spread this message by e-mailing links to this article including to people who are not regular SurvivalBlog readers. With more migration of conservatives to red states, you could help to turn the tide and restore our country to its greatness. Some article titles tell you immediately what you need to know and this is one of them. Even if you now live in the safest, most conservative area there are lessons contained within this article because you are very connected to every rotting liberal area in the country. You may think to yourself: “I…

Every now and then, something comes along that makes you stop and ask, “Why?” — followed quickly by, “Why not?” This cut-down Thompson/Center Contender in .45 Colt/.410 fits that bill perfectly. The post Cut-Down 5” T/C Contender in .45 Colt / .410 appeared first on GUNS Magazine. Read the full article here

On May 5,1865, the first US train robbery occured at North Bend, Ohio. — May 5, 1893: The Panic of 1893 caused a large crash on the New York Stock Exchange. — This is also the birthday of Pat Frank (1908-1964). This was the pen name of newspaper journalist Harry Hart Frank. His 1959 novel Alas, Babylon is a survivalist classic. His personal life was marred by alcoholism, but his writing is admired and still surprisingly popular. (Alas, Babylon is still in print, after 67 years!) As an homage to Pat Frank, one of the settings in my novel Expatriates…

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Sturm, Ruger & Co., Inc. and Beretta Holding S.A. have announced a strategic cooperation agreement. This collaboration began last year as a contentious disagreement between the two companies—as of last March, Beretta Holding S.A., the Luxembourg-based parent of the iconic Italian gunmaker Beretta, had amassed a 9.95 percent stake in Ruger. To parry this, Ruger had adopted a one-year shareholder rights plan—commonly known as a “poison pill.” The poison pill, if Beretta or another stakeholder attained 10 percent or more of its stock, would basically have given options to others to purchase shares at a discounted rate, a defense strategy…